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The Lancet: Trial confirms Ebola vaccine candidate safe and equally immunogenic in Africa

Two experimental DNA vaccines to prevent Ebola virus and the closely related Marburg virus are safe, and generated a similar immune response in healthy Ugandan adults as reported in healthy US adults earlier this year...

26 December, 2014

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Ebola outbreak: Virus still ‘running ahead of us’, says WHO

The Ebola virus that has killed thousands in West Africa is still “running ahead” of efforts to contain it, the head of the World Health Organization has said. Director general Margaret Chan said the...

26 December, 2014

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Antibodies discovery could lead to universal dengue vaccine

A major new class of antibodies that can make the four different types of dengue virus (DENV) non-infectious has been discovered by a group of international researchers, including from the University of Melbourne. The...

17 December, 2014

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Herpes virus rearranges telomeres to improve viral replication

A team of scientists, led by researchers at The Wistar Institute, has found that an infection with herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) causes rearrangements in telomeres, small stretches of DNA that serve as protective ends...

17 December, 2014

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Ebola virus may replicate in an exotic way: Study indicates target for future drugs for measles, Ebola, RSV

University of Utah researchers ran biochemical analysis and computer simulations of a livestock virus to discover a likely and exotic mechanism to explain the replication of related viruses such as Ebola, measles and...

12 December, 2014

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Finding the Ebola virus’ vulnerable points

We know what antibodies stop it in its tracks—we now know where they attach. The latest Ebola outbreak has dwarfed any that have occurred since the discovery of the virus in 1976; previous outbreaks have had lethality...

9 December, 2014

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HIV: Why is the virus so ‘successful’?

HIV has repeatedly made the jump from animals to humans. But only once did it spread around the world. Jonathan Ball, professor of virology at the University of Nottingham, asks why. In Cameroon, about 100 years ago, an...

9 December, 2014

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Lapses in infection control associated with spread of severe respiratory virus MERS, according to study

Little is known about the often fatal virus known as Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), but researchers have identified gaps in infection control as a major culprit in all eleven published cases...

9 December, 2014

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Ebola virus detected in semen three months after symptoms end

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday that the semen of men recovering from Ebola can contain the deadly virus up to three months after the symptoms disappear. Four studies on the persistence of Ebola...

3 December, 2014

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Hong Kong’s Dr Sophie Valkenburg part of team working on lifelong flu shot

Hong Kong doctor part of team working on new type of influenza vaccination that promises to be more effective and much longer lasting. Cooler weather heralds the peak influenza season in Hong Kong, and it’s time...

1 December, 2014

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